Global Corruption Barometer 2013

Global Corruption Barometer 2013

Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer 2013 draws on a survey of more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries. It addresses people’s direct experiences with bribery and details their views on corruption in the main institutions in their countries. It also provides insights into people's willingness to stop corruption.

3.2 Bribery across public services
Comparing major public services, people pay bribes most often when they interact with the police. Figure 3 reports the global bribery rates in eight common public services. According to respondents worldwide, the police are the most often bribed institution in the past year, followed by the judiciary. Of the eight categories we asked about, bribes are least likely to be paid for utilities. However, even for this service 13 per cent of people that had come into contact with utility providers report paying a bribe. Bribery in law enforcement: Around the world, 31 per cent of people that have come into contact with the police report having paid a bribe. This rate is consistent with the result of the previous Global Corruption Barometer in 2010/2011, which also found the police to be the service most prone to bribery. Bribery rates of the police were highest (75 per cent or more) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and SierraÂ Leone.
Reported bribes paid to the judiciary have increased significantly in some parts of the world going up by more than 20 per cent in Ghana, Indonesia, Mozambique, Solomon Islands and Taiwan. Apart from Taiwan, bribery to the police has also increased by more than 20 per cent in all these countries. However, reported bribery rates to the judiciary have gone down by more than 20 per cent in Ethiopia, Iraq, Palestine and South Sudan, where a decline in bribery rates to the police has also been seen. Bribery in land services: Around the world, one in five people report that they had paid a bribe for land services. The high prevalence of bribery in the land sector creates a substantial informal cost for those trying to register or transfer land. It can make land administration services inaccessible to people who are not able to afford these illegal payments. By creating a disincentive to register property transactions, the informality of land tenure increases. People are left with little or no protection under the law, making them vulnerable to evictions and other abuses.
Figure 3: Bribery rates by service Percentage of people who have paid a bribe to each service (average across 95 countries*)
In the past 12 months, when you or anyone living in your household had a contact or contacts with one of eight services, have you paid a bribe in any form?
Police Judiciary Registry Land Medical Education Tax Utilities 0 5 10 13% 15 20 25 17% 16% 15% 21% 21% 24%
31%
30
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*Data from the following countries was excluded due to validity concerns: Albania, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Burundi, Fiji, France, Germany, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malawi, Russia and Zambia.
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